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Well, after many, MANY months of anticipation, MegaScenery Vol. 3, Northern California finally arrived!

Wow, awesome scenery!
Does it have winter textures  ::)

I wish there was a similar scenery for my hometown, that would be sweet.  :)

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Well it becomes whatever you wants it to be. I'm pretty close to have it as realistic as it can get, but for real pilots, FS2004 is just a game...

Is it just me or does your hometown look like a swastika?

Great scenery

Awesome.....

Amazing! I like the sim pics better than the real world pics  ;D

Great detail and pics! The FS is definetley more than a game!!!!!

If the "Megascenery" photographic scenery is similar to the VFR Photographic Scenery for England and Wales, then the scenery is only of value when viewed from an altitude of 1500 feet AGL or more.
At lower levels, and ground ground level, there are no 3D buildings, trees, etc, just a flat blurry texture.
Remember it is only a flat 2D photograph draped over the DEM mesh scenery.
It's excellent for high level VFR flying but not for low level or landing on... ...!
Also. because the photographs were taken at a particular season/time of day they will always appear the same, (no Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter textures!).
Best flown at mid-day, mid Summer.
Remember it's only a satellite photograph... ...!
...unless someone convinces me otherwise... ...LOL...!

Cheers all... ...!

Paul.

P.S. Silver...take some shots at around 250-500ft AGL... ...!
P.P.S. one of my home bases is South County airfield,
(Q99)... ...!

If the "Megascenery" photographic scenery is similar to the VFR Photographic Scenery for England and Wales, then the scenery is only of value when viewed from an altitude of 1500 feet AGL or more.
At lower levels, and ground ground level, there are no 3D buildings, trees, etc, just a flat blurry texture.
Remember it is only a flat 2D photograph draped over the DEM mesh scenery.
It's excellent for high level VFR flying but not for low level or landing on... ...!
Also. because the photographs were taken at a particular season/time of day they will always appear the same, (no Spring/Summer/Autumn/Winter textures!).
Best flown at mid-day, mid Summer.
Remember it's only a satellite photograph... ...!
...unless someone convinces me otherwise... ...LOL...!

Cheers all... ...!

Paul.

P.S. Silver...take some shots at around 250-500ft AGL... ...!
P.P.S. one of my home bases is South County airfield,
(Q99)... ...!

Well yes, you are correct that Megascenery does not show it's full effect at low altitudes, particularly under 2000 feet.

Hi Silver..!
Thanks for the reply... ;D.!
It's interesting to note that the auto-gen 3-D objects are included in the Mega-scenery... ;D...!
At least you have "things" sticking up at low levels... :o...LOL...!
My VFR scenery is perfectly flat at ground level apart from any hills, and the autogen objects are excluded from the scenery apart from the usual default Airfield scenery/objects... :'(...!

All of my flying occurs between Santa Rosa and Los Angeles, (Highway 1/101, single engine props, low level VFR), so together with my relief map of California I am very aware of the lack of built-up areas in Silicon Valley...including Morgan Hill and Q99... ;)...!
Your Megascenery certainly looks more realistic... 8)...!
How much of California does it cover...?

Cheers Mate... ;D...!

Paul...Off from Half Moon Bay, (KHAF), over the Bay to Livermore, (KLVK)... 8)...!


P.S. Here is a typical shot of Gloucertershire, (England), using VFR Photographic Scenery, (actual photographs from aircraft), at around 2000ft AGL.... 8)...!

http://www.justflight.com

...> Terninal 02 > Flight sim add-ons > VFR Scenery



See also....>>

http://www.getmapping.com

..for how it was done... ...!